We face decisions everyday. Some are large and some are small. Some can be life changing while others don’t really make much of a difference in our lives at all.
We learn how to make decisions through experience. But, how do you get this experience?
As a parent, because I was not going to be there with my children every step of the way throughout their lives, I needed to teach them how to be able to make good decisions.
Life can seem very hard and unfair at times.
When facing the loss a job, a divorce, illness, or some other serious problem, you might begin to ask yourself “when will God help me?” It may even get to the point where we may start to feel abandoned and alone.
And then someone like me, a friend of yours, or a minister comes along and tells you “to have faith in God because God will never leave you or let you fall completely” or that “this is the time He is working to make you stronger.” But to you these are only words. Your situation may seem so desperate that you cannot even relate to this.
“Keep your eyes forward, Mr. Laydon,” the nuns used to say back when I was in grammar school. Once you heard this, you didn’t dare look anywhere else.
Boy, were we afraid of those nuns. They used to tell us that our parents signed a paper that gave them permission to hit us if we were bad. I don’t know if it was true or not but every once in a while we would get a whack from a ruler and we sure didn’t run to our parents crying because we probably would have gotten another one when we got home. Ahh… the good old days!
How was I, just a mere child with raw knuckles, to know back then that those nuns were, probably unknowingly, giving me some pretty good life advice?
I can’t think of too many people who would say that life is a piece of cake.
Even those who seem to have it all, who are happy, and who are spiritually grounded would tell you that life is not always easy; if someone were to tell you that their life was easy, I would consider the possibility that this person was not telling you the whole truth.
Every day we are faced with new trials and tribulations: finding or keeping a job, paying bills, worrying about a child, dealing with a medical condition… I am sure we could add more to this list than we would have room to print here.
